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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (33177)	6/8/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573708

Elmer: Thank you for your answers. Your knowledge of Intel's roadmap is about as much as mine. There are too many uncertainties to blow away $2K on an Intel's system that could be obsolete in 6 months. Better off to stick to the cheap socket7 till Intel drops their PII to $100. <<Then you deffinalty DON'T want a socket7.>> I posted on SI a week ago on the K6-2. I showed that there is no advantage to slot1 to socket 7. The PII-400 FP can do max. of 400MFLOPs and the K6-2-300 on socket 7 can do 1,200MFLOPs with the AMD 3DNow software driver. Bootnet showed that QUAKE II at 1080 X 720 resolution K6-2-333 beats PII-333 by 39% in FPS! No one has yet to understand the implication of this result including you. It is true that AMD still have a difficult time breaking INTC brand name. But the fact is that AMD K6-3D is a SUPERIOR technology to the PII-slot 1 architecture. The 3D engine for FP is much faster than the INTC pipeline FP. As a matter fact INTC will copy 3DNow (same idea but different code) technology in their Katmai. Maxwell